Batman quotes from Young Justice

Batman

As bad as all that?

Perhaps worse.

Red Tornado

Yet this is not what troubles you.

Make no mistake. My niece is untrained and cannot be held responsible for this - for our debacle.

Batman

No one blames her. But clearly we underestimated her abilities.

You understate it. In terms of raw power, she has the strongest telepathic mind I have ever encountered. Stronger, by far, than mine.

Batman

How are they?

I am still shaken by what you and I have wrought. One can only imagine what these youths fair.

Batman

I know our virtual reality training simulation went badly, but I'd hoped the team would've rallied by now.

Trauma tends to linger, as I know you know, my friend.

Red Arrow

I'm not convinced. Sure you two, and Kid Flash are above suspicion. But I know Artemis isn't shooting straight. For starters, she's not Green Arrow's niece.

What?

Well, yeah. In fact, she's related to...

Batman

Enough. Artemis's relations may indeed make her suspect. But she's entitled to a secret identity. I'm more concerned about Superboy. We still know very little about what Cadmus programmed into their weapon. Conner could be the mole, and not know it.

Who is this girl?!

Batman

Does it matter?

Batman

Harjavti has been praised as a fair, wise leader. A humanitarian.

Sure, any friend of Bruce Wayne's...

Psimon

Off our game, are we? Let's dig a little deeper, find out what you're really afraid of, hmm? (Miss Martian sees the Team in horror)

Get back!

Psimon

Well, of course. Friends and teammates shrink from you in fear. (Giant versions of Batman, Black Canary, and Red Tornado appear)

Black Canary

You should've told us the truth.

Batman

I don't see how we can trust you anymore. (All three leave)

Psimon

Then you're kicked off the pep squad. (A giant version of Martian Manhunter's head appears)

I am sorry M'gann, but there is no place for you on Earth anymore. (A desert landscape is shown)

Psimon

Oh, and banished to Mars, too? Yet even that's not the worst, is it? (The Mars landscape is blown away to reveal Superboy)

No, please, stop.

Love you? I can't even LOOK at you. (Superboy leaves, Miss Martian falls to her knees, and Psimon appears)

Psimon

Oh, what you wouldn't do to prevent that now, right?

That's right. (The entire floor shakes and brightens)

Psimon

Now, now, my pretty, I know you do want to do anything you'll regret.

You don't know me at all! (She shoots a beam at Psimon and enlarges it, erasing his consciousness)

Wonder Woman

Times like these, one feels the very weight of the world upon us.

Everyone is here. (The League gathers in a large room) Our agenda is clear. What's at stake should not be underestimated.

Superman

The Decisions we make today will reverberate for years to come.

Wonder Woman

And influence whether or not the world continues to put their trust in the Justice League.

Batman

Please, take your seats. We have work to do.

Seriously, the Atom? How useful could he be at that size?

Batman

It's the size that makes him useful.

Absolutely. Still, we could always use more raw power, and Earth has a third Green Lantern, Guy Gardener.

No.

But we could really...

NO!

Wonder Woman

I shouldn't be surprised, since you indoctrinated Robin into crime fighting at the ripe old age of 9.

Batman

Robin needed to help bring the men who murdered his family to justice.

Wonder Woman

So he could turn out like you?

Batman

(beat) So that he wouldn't.

Batman

Override. Batman: 0-2.

Recognized. Access granted. Vandal Savage: A-04.

Red Arrow

I...I was the mole?

Vandal Savage

Yes. Yes you were.

Something else is wrong.

The entire League was under Savage's spell for just over a day. (Images are shown of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, and Hawkwoman) We've accounted for most of that time, but these six went missing for a full 16 hours we can't account for.

Batman

16 hours? What did we do?

Big guy's Lobo. He's an intergalactic bounty hunter. Big, scary, but not likely to return. The little guy's another story. That's a Krolotean. And Kroloteans always travel in packs.

Batman

Meaning more of them are on Earth.

Someone should get Superman a print of that. [chuckles] He'll want to frame it!

Wonder Woman

A publicly annoyed Lex Luthor is... a minor miracle. How was it achieved?

Batman

It began with Oracle, who sorted her way through LexCorp shell companies to find the Dublin factory.

Nightwing, Aquaman, and I checked it out and discovered Lex was using it to store his weaponized Spider Bots.

Batman

So the six of us devised a plan. Oracle posted the blurred M.O.N.Q.I. image on the Outsiders' feed. I posed as the distraught Matthew Malone.

While I morphed into his missing daughter, Moira.

Wonder Woman

The Ivo drone and the M.O.N.Q.I.s.?

Batman

Those were damaged bots, salvaged from Ivo's last base by Robin, who repaired, reprogrammed, and operated them via remote control.

Wonder Woman

[concerned] To... fool the Outsiders?

Batman

Among others.

Wonder Woman

But not Lex Luthor.

Batman

No. Lex will know this was a setup. But knowing and proving are two different things.

Wonder Woman

Is that your excuse? Don't any of you see how truly compromising this is?

Batman

This is a war, Diana.

Wonder Woman

And which side are we on? We're not simply hiding things anymore. We've gone beyond lying to our comrades and the public - now we're staging false events, creating fake news, merely to make our opponents look bad? Or the Outsiders, and by extension, the rest of us, look good? Even with the best of intentions, that is crossing a line. You must see that. You must.